Water Structure at Ocean Weather Station V. Northwestern Pacific Ocean, 1966-71

摘要

The oceanographic station data obtained at Ocean Weather Station V from 1966 to 1972 by the U.S. Coast Guard have been analyzed and are presented in a form suitable for water structure studies. Temperatures, salinities, and depths are given as a function of density (sigma-t). Harmonic analysis was used as a curve-fitting technique to obtain parameters for these properties as a function of time. The harmonic coefficients and interpolated values at the first of each month for the 6-year series are tabulated in an appendix. Heat budget estimates show that the effects of local ocean-atmosphere exchange processes are obscured by advected properties.